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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Murder is not a capital crime in Lower California, but General Contreras took no chances in waiting for a trial. All the next night a court martial sat. At sunrise the prisoner. Private Juan Castillo Morales, 24, was hustled to the cemetery on a nearby hill, told to run for his life. A firing squad of his fellow soldiers finished him quickly...
...streams below the woolen mills at Leeds, where the water dyed him blue one day, red the next. At 8 he was junior swimming champion of England, at 22 he went to the U. S. on a professional barnstorming tour. Robert Kiphuth was born & bred in upstate New York, took all his exercise on land. At 22 he was a punctilious instructor in physical education at Yale...
Swimmer Mann could swim so well that he was hired to coach at Yale, Harvard, Syracuse, Navy and almost every athletic club that had a pool, finally took over swimming at the University of Michigan in 1926. Instructor Kiphuth, in the meantime, had been expounding his theories on body-building with such success that he was appointed swimming coach at Yale. When the 1936 Olympic Games came around, Yale's Kiphuth was named coach of a U. S. swimming team for the third time and his feat of twelve years without defeat in a collegiate dual meet was proclaimed...
After TIME began publishing they took turns editing and managing business affairs, each for a several months' period...
...really picturesque personalities in U. S. education, Bill McGovern inherited his wanderlust from his father, an army officer, and his mother. Born in Manhattan, he started to travel when he was six weeks old. His mother once took him to Mexico just to see a revolution. At 16 he studied in a monastery in Kyoto, Japan, became a Buddhist priest...